• Big Data

    Pinot™ Basics

    February 27, 2021 - By 

    Weekend started, pored myself a glass of Long Meadow Ranch Anderson Valley Pinot Noir. It smelled like cherry cola, cinnamon, and a forest in autumn. Probably not the right time to think or even blog about OLAP. – Kinshuk Dutta Online analytical processing, or OLAP Is an approach to answer multi-dimensional analytical (MDA) queries swiftly in computing. OLAP is part of the broader category of business intelligence, which also encompasses relational databases, report writing and data mining. Typical applications of OLAP include business reporting for sales, marketing, management reporting, business process management (BPM), budgeting and forecasting, financial reporting and similar…

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    Iceberg Basics

    February 25, 2021 - By 

    In my recent post I tried explaining how different data collection mechanisms are available and how due to modern day requirement, modern data lakes were formed. Iceberg is one such solution that came out really strong. What is Apache ICEBERG? Apache Iceberg is an open table format for huge analytic datasets. Iceberg adds tables to Trino and Spark that use a high-performance format that works just like a SQL table. With special emphasis on User Experience Reliability and Performance & Open Standards What makes it special is its unique table design for big data. This is explained brilliantly and covered well…